The galloping poliovirus seems out of control and efforts to clamp down on the disease have miserably failed so far.
The record of the maxium cases a year was broken last night when a five-day national campaign to immunize 34.1 million children was completed, showing complete inadequacy of official efforts.
The eight new cases were confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH) here.
A health official from said that out of eight new cases, six are from tribal areas and adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and one each from Karachi and Quetta.
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The only areas so far immune from the crippling disease this year are Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Security is the main reason for spread of polio as vaccination cannot be organized in tribal areas where Taliban still control large areas.
They consider polio medicine as a conspiracy by the West to sterile Muslims. Same is the case with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which is dominated by Pashtuns. Its capital Peshawar is considered as hub of poliovirus.
Pakistan is the only country with Afghanistan and Nigeria where polio is still endemic and the World Health Organization in May imposed travel restriction on Pakistan.